Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-03
PRODUCE.
Wheeling.

Wheeling.
We report Il good market on butter and
poultry, owing To cooler weather The
The demand for eggs has improved,
and prices on both butter and eggs have
advanced accordingly. Apples, fancy
stock, sell up close tO the supply.
Green stuff is selling up pretty
close To the supply and prices have changed
but IN few instances since our
last report. Good stock is sold up pretty
close to the supply, but ordinary
stul HANGS on and Is slow selling.
The prices quoted below are wholesale fig
ures and I'LL green stun Is home raised. The
quotations are changed on Tuesdays and
FRIDAYS but the market is liable to fluc-
tuatiOnS between those days.
Butter-Dcmand brisk; choice creamery
3Da5Oc; country choice 2Ia2Sc; good conn
try 2Oa!5r; common 5a6c; supply fair.
Beans-New haudpicked navy 81 Pal ~
per buShel; old 81 lOal IL; demand for
old slow, for new good.
Dried Fruit--New eVapOrated pared
peaches 3nl25c; impaired do ljal7c; raSp-
berries 2Oa22c; blackhcrrieS 9aluc;new sun
dricd apples, quartered, ic, sliced la1ci
peaches, new halves, 4!a5!c; ito quarters !
aIc;GO pared i5alSc;pitted cherries l2al3c;
pew eyapOrated apples l0al2c. Market on
dried fruit nominal; demand moderate.
CheeSc-SaIcs in u jobhing way OF prime
mild Ohio factory at Sc; New York l4a
l5c; Sweitzor 1lal2c; Limberger 9al0c.
EggS-Strictly fresh stock ut l5al6c per
dOz supply light and demand good.
Feathers Choice, 5tla55c, IN original
packages; la5c more in small lots.
Honey-ChOiCe white clover l3alic;
choice huckwheat, l2al4c.
POtatOes-Choice new home raised, 40 TO
5Oc per bushel; demand light; SupplygOod.
POultry-Liye chickens, old s. Wa3 p
per dozen; dressed chickens . to lie per
pound; turkeys, live Ease, dressed Gal lie
per pound; demand good, supply fair;
ducks, live - O0a3 % per doz.; dressed,
lOal2c; dressed geese, Case per pound.
Rass--Steady at ial4c lor white mixed
cotton; la &c for all wool and ial4 IT, for
mixed.
Sceds-Clover, per bushel, 81 75a5 %;
timothy, per bushel, s. l5a2 80 Market
active. Extra clean blue grass, TOc; or
chard grass, 81 80; red top, 7Ocpcr buShel.
Iard--COuntry prime, 53a6c; demand
fair.
AppIes-Green, per Dbl. choice new,
s. O0a2 50; common 81 80 per barrel,
demand good; supply light.
Buckwhcat Flour-ler pound 2ia24c.
OniOns-New, 75ca$l ~ per bushel; good
demand; supply light.
Cabbage-$l GOAL % per barrel; demand
good, supply light.
Sweet potatOes-$2 80 to2 75 per barrel;
Jerseys, So OO to 3 so; supply light; de
mand good.
Cranberries-$2 as to So 90 per bushel;
crate; good demand, supply good.
Nuts Shellbark hickory nuts per hushel
$lal -; walnutS 25a35c.
Parsnips-Sl Dial - per barrel.
Tumips-$l per barrel.
Kale$l 75a2 90 per barrel.
Green OnionS-3Oc per dozen hunchCs.
New YorE.
New YORK, March 2.-FlOur-ReC eiPts
Q, 100 barrels; exports 5,lSS barrels, and
10, no sacks; market moderately active
and generally SteS.dy; sales Is, 800 barrels.
Whcat-Receipts -, $50 bushels; exports
.l52, BOB bushels; spot ialc higher hut less
active; options opened firm and advanced
Liable. closing steady; sales j, 46i, 900 bush
els futures and 1872, 600 bushels spot; No
spring nominal ut 9lac; ungraded red SS;'
93c; No. red 92!c; No. | white Gle; No.
> red March SSTaS9sc, closing at S95c;
April S9Sa90Sc, closing ut 9O!c; May
90 5-l6a9lSc, closing at 9l4c; June GOA
Gle, closing at 9lsc; July 9l,a92sc, clos
ing at l,c; August 81 la!2lC, closing at
92Sc: September 92ia9Ic, closing ut 92sc;
December % l3.l6c, closing ut % 3-l6c.
Com Receipts 5000 bushels; exports
81, 654 bushels; sales 56S, 600 bushels; spot
firm and quiet; options 4aSc higher, clos
inn steady; ungraded 47a50 damaged Zoe;
No. : l7{c. steamer i7jaiSc; No. , March
IHa4gic, closing at l9sc; April lsSal9c,
closing at l9c; May lSSal9c, closing Mt i9c;
June iSSai9sc, closing at i9Sc. Oats
! Weak; receipts :, 40 bushels: exports ,3i2
bushels; mixed western 35a:'6c; white do
37af2c. Hay--Steady and in iair request.
Hops-Quiet aud weak. Coffee-Spot fair;
Rio quiet mt 14lc; options stronger hut
only moderately active; sales $3.50 bags
March, April, May, June, July, l2.Sla
II. l5e; August, September, October, IL. 30
ALI. SOC; December ~. jOc Sugar-English
Island 4 5-16c; refined quiet. MolaSSeS-
Dull. Rice-Steady. Petroleum-Firm;
United closed at 62ic Tallow-Steady.
Ergs-Easier; western 11lalSc. Pork
Firm and fairly active; mess quoted at
SIS - for old Lard-opened 4a5 points
lower, closing steady; western steam spot
81 22Ia7 81; March s. 10; April s. pa
! ~, closing at = p; May s. 274a7 81,
closing Mt 81 -; June s. 35a7 81, closing
at 81 -; July 81 42a7 IS, closing at s. -;
city steam s. co. Butter-Strong Cheese
Quiet and unchanged. Copper-Dull;
lake 1Osc.
Chicago.
CHICAGO, March 2.-The prepOnderat-
ing interest in speculation continues to
centre in pork, though there was renewed
SPECULATION in wheat, and during the after
noon the wheat pit had more than its pro
norton of operators The wheat market
opened Ic higher, owing TO large clear
onces from the seaboard, which aggregated
so 600 bushels. The quantity of wheat
on ocean passage showed a decrease of
$40 coo bushels. Colder weather was also
predicted, which tended to encourage buy